alt Hacker NewsSo why have government employees and contractors been so lazy and incompetent as to not improve defenses by a similar margin?
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cowsandmilk • today at 1:00 AM
+1, in this case, the hackers exploited a CVE in PeopleSoft that had a published patch. The contractors just didn't apply the patch. https://www.reuters.com/technology/accenture-contractor-remo...
jacquesm • today at 1:05 AM
If they're incompetent and lazy as you say then probably because they couldn't...
The vast majority of the competent people got DOGE’d. CISA lost like 40% of their staff including much of their red team specialty. 18F was completely eliminated (“Deleted” as Musk put it). If some specialist in the FBI who could have helped prevent the hack happened to have been assigned to work on the Classified Docs case, they were also fired because the most corrupt, incompetent group of morons is running things in DC for the next few years.